Trust God’s perfect timing
Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. –Genesis 40:14, 23 In today’s verse, we read one of the saddest sentences in the entire […]
Are you forcing prayer?
“I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. … If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” –John […]
The source of true joy
And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. –1 John 1:4 When the Apostle John wrote this letter so long ago, he was very concerned that we experience the reality of Jesus Christ in our lives and the joy that He gives. He was concerned because he knew from experience […]
He Was There for You
There is nothing comfortable about Good Friday. We call it “good” — and it is, in the deepest sense — but don’t let that word soften what actually happened. What happened on this day was brutal. Unjust. Devastating. And it was necessary. Jesus was betrayed by a friend, abandoned by His closest followers, falsely accused, […]
Not My Will, But Yours
It was the last night before everything changed. Jesus knew what was coming. He knew about the cross, the nails, the crown of thorns. He knew one of the twelve would betray Him before sunrise and another would deny Him three times before the rooster crowed. And yet He washed their feet. The King of […]